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World map showing the names of continents and major oceans. Babylonian Map of the World Ptolemy's world map Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map Abraham Ortelius's map of the world from 1570. Distortion caused by the Mercator projection world map exclusive economic zones age of Earth's oceanic crust Cenozoic migration routes
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Also Known As global map

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World map showing the names of continents and major oceans.
Babylonian Map of the World
Ptolemy's world map
Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map
Abraham Ortelius's map of the world from 1570.
Distortion caused by the Mercator projection
world map
exclusive economic zones
age of Earth's oceanic crust
Cenozoic migration routes
Watch Earth's continents move, from 650 million years ago to 250 million years in the future
Observe the density of lightning flashes in a typical year with its highest rate in South America, Africa, and Australasia
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Aaron Arrowsmith, engraving by T.A. Dean after a portrait by H.W. Pickersgill
Aaron Arrowsmith
British geographer and cartographer